Improvement in tin-gutter machine



@aient @imite JAMES N. ADAMS, or cHILLIcoTHE, MISSOURI.

Lettens Patent No. 102,465, dated May 3, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TIN-GUTTER MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in -these Letters Patent and making,` p'a of the same.

ToA all 'w71 om yit may con-cern le it known that I, JAMES N. ADAMS, of Chillicothe, in the county of Livingston and State of Missouri, have invented a new and improved 'limGutkter Machine; and I do hereby declare that the.fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

which will enable others skilled in the alt to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming `part ot this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for making tin gutters, and consists of a sheetmetal cylinder, ofthe same radius as the gutter tobe formed, provided with guides, by which the previously bent-up sheets of tin are confined to it while being shoved along from end to end for soldering, and also provided with a socket, for supporting it, while in use, on a candle-mold stake -a tool in common use in tinners shops.` y v Figure l is a longitudinal section of my improved machine, and t Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same. v

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l y l A is a sheet-metal tube, of the same'radius as Vthe groove of the gutter to be made, and about the length of two sections. It zis provided with awooden plug, B, at one end,the same having an axial hole in which a tapered tube, C, is `inserted, and which extends nearly to the center oi' the tube A, where-it is supported in the center of a disk, D, which fits the inside of said tube A.` y

E is a long rib of wood, attached to the exterior of the tube A, and extending along its whole length. It

is intended for a guide, along which the vbead of the previouslyformed sections ofthe gutter shall move, and it supports hooked brackets F, attached to it by the same bolts, G, which connect rib E to the tube.

One or more of these brackets may have curved extensions, I, extending as far around the cylinder as the gutters do when placed on the cylinder, as representedin tig. 2. y lhe'mandrel is suit-ably supported on the candlemold stake, so as to be turned freely while soldering the joints, and the previously-bent sections of the v gutter are shoved along the cylinder, as shown in fig. i

2, with the beads R heldagainst the rib E by the brackets F, while the other parts are confined by the extensions I, and are thereby held in position for soldering them tovether the ends bein suitably lapped, 23 7 g and the' whole being moved along from left to right,

as the succeeding sections are added, until the re quired length is produced.

Havingthus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent--pl The combination with the cylinder, provided with the heads BD and tube O, of the gnide-rib'E, hooked 'brackets AF, and one or more extensions, I, ofthe latter, all substantially as specified.

Witnesses:

JOHN Coonnss, F. K. FLETCHER.

J. N. ADAMS. 

